A Tennessee woman was sentenced Friday to more than three years in federal prison for a January incident in which DEA agents arrested her in Amarillo on a bus with more than 7 pounds of cocaine.
Andrea Worley, 51, of Memphis, was sentenced Friday in Amarillo’s U.S. District Court on charges of possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and aiding and abetting. She was sentenced to serve three years, five months in prison.
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Worley pleaded guilty to the charge earlier this year.
On Jan. 27, federal agents encountered two people traveling on a bus from California and found several bundles of cocaine strapped to their bodies at an Albuquerque, N.M., bus station.
Those unidentified people agreed to cooperate and told federal agents another woman also would be traveling on a bus headed for Amarillo, according to court records.
About 5:30 p.m., DEA agents and local authorities boarded the bus when it arrived in Amarillo, and asked to speak to the woman, who looked nervous and was shaking, a DEA agent’s affidavit said.
As the woman, identified as Worley, started to leave the bus, one of the agents asked her if the tan bag by her feet belonged to her.
Worley said the bag belonged to another woman who left the bus in Albuquerque.
Officers then advised her of her rights, and she signed a written consent for agents to search her belongings, which included a purse.
Agents found nothing in the purse, but a drug dog found two bundles of cocaine in the tan bag.
Worley later told two Potter County deputies that she had placed the bundles in the tan bag after police removed two other people from the bus in Albuquerque.
Worley also admitted to dumping more than a pound of cocaine in the bus toilet, according to the agent’s affidavit.
Worley also admitted she traveled with the other people who were arrested and that they were to receive an unknown amount of money for ferrying the drugs to Memphis.
Federal investigators found more than 4 pounds of cocaine in the tan bag and more than 3 pounds in the toilet, according to a government report.
